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What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?

Puri, Jyotsna - 2015

the extent to which scientific impact evaluation methods can provide evidence to improve the effectiveness and efficiency … drawing on real-life examples from the small but growing academic literature, we demonstrate how impact evaluation methods can … limited resources is a key challenge for humanitarian assistance and impact evaluation is one way of achieving this …

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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011

We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...

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English Skills and Early Labour Market Integration of Humanitarian Migrants

Cheng, Zhiming - 2020

We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...

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Voter Reaction to Government Incompetence and Corruption Related to the 1999 Earthquakes in Turkey

Akarca, Ali - 2015

Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great deal of incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next...

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Charitable Giving for Overseas Development : UK Trends Over a Quarter Century

Backus, Peter; Micklewright, John; Pharoah, Cathy; … - 2021

Charitable giving for overseas development and emergency relief is important in the UK, being about a quarter of the size of government development aid. There has been a strong growth over time, reflecting the activities of development charities and the public response to a series of...

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Long-Term Effects of Famine on Life Expectancy : A Re-Analysis of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-1868

Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele - 2011

group. Cohorts born in Finland during the Great Finnish Famine are highly heterogeneous in their distribution of deaths …

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The Right Look : Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it

Berggren, Niclas - 2011

Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...

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Aging and Productivity : Evidence from Piece Rates

Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2012

We evaluate the effects of aging on productivity using piece-rate earnings as a proxy for worker output. Our data contain the population of Finnish blue collar workers in 61 different industries during 1990-2002. A unique feature of the data is that we can observe the exact hours worked on piece...

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The Effect of Job Displacement on Couples' Fertility Decisions

Huttunen, Kristiina - 2012

This paper analyzes the effects of job displacement on fertility using Finnish Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data (FLEED) matched to birth records. We distinguish between male and female job losses. We focus on couples where one spouse has lost his/her job due to a plant closure or mass layoff...

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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being : Is There a Silver Lining?

Bockerman, Petri - 2013

This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special attention to the role of occupational restructuring as a conveying mechanism. Using linked employer-employee data, we find that offshoring involves job destruction, especially...

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